Features – Page 3

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    Five steps to re-emerging as a resilient organisation

    24 February 2012

    Organisations need to rebuild their risk management structures to cope with the increasing frequency of unforeseen, devastating risk events

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    How to: Avoid getting caught out by trade sanctions

    24 February 2012

    Governments are increasingly willing to use trade sanctions as a political tool, and can put them in place quickly. Businesses must work hard to keep on top of regulatory changes

  • Black Swan
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    How to: Deal with complexity

    2 February 2012

    In this increasingly uncertain world, organisations need to evolve their risk management frameworks to further enhance their resilience to unexpected shocks. Here are five practical steps to do so

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    How to: Do business in frontier markets

    29 August 2011

    Emerging markets promise big gains – and risk management challenges to match. Ambitious companies should follow these five steps to crossing frontiers

  • Engaged Investor
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    How to: Conduct corporate foreign policy

    29 August 2011

    Engaging with business abroad can prove rife with barriers and challenges, yet in our globalised economy it’s increasingly necessary. How can you get it right?

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    A model career

    22 August 2010

    Times are bountiful for the LEGO Group, but it’s not all rosy, explains Hans Læssøe, the company’s head of strategic risk

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    How to: Deal with the Bribery Act

    14 June 2010

    Marsh and Kroll hosted a recent event debating the impact of the UK’s new Bribery Act on businesses. Here’s what happened

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    Chain reactions

    6 May 2010

    Whether it's a supplier going bust or a dispute with a key partner, the potential risks in a supply chain have only increased with the downturn. StrategicRISK surveys the issues

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    Building blocks for the future

    30 March 2010

    No longer able to leave all risk managing to the risk manager, the board is being forced to take responsibility. Neil Hodge asks how corporations will structure themselves to deal with a constantly shifting risk landscape

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    Prime crime

    30 March 2010

    Has fraud boomed in the recession? Or is it simply that cash-strapped copmanies are spotting things earlier? As the old adage goes, there's no such thing as a small fraud, just those that haven't had time to grow. Peter Davy reports

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    Favourite covers

    30 March 2010

    StrategicRISK’s bold and dramatic cover images tell the story and history of this magazine and the risk management profession

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    Out of sight, out of mind

    1 February 2010

    Employers may be well-versed in the duty they have to ensure a safe environment for their staff. But what about the safety of employees sent away on business trips? Andrew Leslie looks at the potential risks and what companies can do to mitigate them

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    Evolving threats

    1 February 2010

    As political risk uncertainty rises, the threat landscape is changing. StrategicRISK has teamed up with ACE to find out what tops your list of concerns and what you’re doing to mitigate them

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    Charting disaster

    22 December 2009

    Following a year of economic turmoil and political tensions, Nathan Skinner highlights the global issues that will be on the world's risk register in 2010

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    Steering through the minefield

    12 October 2009

    The world of international business is a complicated one. Firms with overseas operations face a huge number of legal challenges, not least in the realm of insurance, writes Nathan Skinner

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    The way ahead

    12 September 2009

    With the theme of this year’s FERMA forum being the future of risk management, Lee Coppack looks at how the risk manager’s role is evolving in Europe

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    Gaining credit

    12 September 2009

    Throughout the production and supply chains, credit lubricates transactions. But oiling the wheels is getting more difficult now, Tony Dowding writes

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    Global analysis

    12 September 2009

    Regulatory approaches to insurance vary throughout the world, even among countries that are in the same region. Nathan Skinner summaries some of the differences

  • Special Report: Fighting Corruption and Bribery
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    The cost of corruption

    22 July 2009

    Nathan Skinner reviews anti bribery and corruption measures – and discusses just how effective they are

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    The Cyprus connection

    18 July 2009

    Producing fake products is a useful source of income for organised crime and terrorist groups. And Cyprus, a relatively small island in the Mediterranean, is starting to play a pivotal role. Alan Waring explains